ISLAM & MUSIC: THE CASE OF IRAN at the Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven, 14 June 2018

How did the newly established Islamic Republic regulate music following the 1979 revolution, and what have been the effects of those policies on music in contemporary Iran? Journalist and author, Nahid Siamdoust shares from her book, Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran, an alternative history of postrevolutionary Iran viewed through the field of music.